Thank you, Madam Chair. Back in 1994-1995, when the federal government cut our funding so significantly, the Northwest Territories went from having the lowest pupil/teacher ratio in Canada to having the highest. After we add these two positions that we're talking about adding back in through the next three years of our budget process, we still won't be back to where we were in the mid-'90s. So when the Member talks about not having the same sort of resources available in terms of the pupil/teacher ratio in the classroom, he's absolutely right. This Legislative Assembly hasn't been able to put back in the amount of money yet that was taken out to accomplish that. So it would take considerably more money than what we're providing now to ensure that we could provide the extras like that.

However, that said, we've become aware of a way of teaching music that may be of interest. It's being used in New Brunswick. The department is taking a look at it and we may be able to, through distance education, offer something that is quite reasonable to students across the Northwest Territories.